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The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 April 16, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Easter Fun Island Strange Days on Padre on Isolation By Dale Rankin It’s been a week of high tides and Island relatively low temperatures on our little sandbar. It was exceedingly strange to drive the beach on Easter Sunday and see nothing but seagulls. The high spring tides pushed higher by northeast winds have covered Island beaches during high-tide this week. Closed-toed shoes are in Around The Island these days as the manicure shops are closed and we’re getting some choppy-looking haircuts popping up as shaggy- haired Islanders break out the hedge clippers for a self-trim. But if those are the worst problems we face in these uncertain times we will be fine. Beach maintenance Since 2005 maintenance crews Knox celebrating his first Easter is from the City of Corpus Christi and 5 months old. Nueces County have literally passed each other on the road as they move from one end of The Island to the other. The problem has been that the city and county each maintain portions of the beach north and south Photo by Denise Godoy. Signs of the times. Photo by Debbie Noble of Packery Channel and since the channel opened in 2005 the crews had to take to the roads to move from one area to the other. Everyone agreed it was/is a silly and wildly inefficient system but attempts over the years to rejigger it have all failed. The city has even been working to build a maintenance barn behind the fire station on Commodores to give crews access to the beach on both sides of the channel. But word came this week that a tentative agreement has been reached to give the city responsibility for Jackson Billings was happy to find maintaining the beach north of the cash in his egg. Packery, including Newport Pass, and the county responsibility of the beach in the city limits south of Bob Hall Pier. The plan has been approved by the county and is now headed to the city council for a final vote. It looks like a long-needed solution may be at hand. Flour Bluff ISD meeting As we mentioned in the last issue the Flour Bluff School District Board of Directors will live stream their monthly meeting on Thursday, April 30. It will mark the first time a meeting of that board has been made available for on-line viewing. This is a landmark for Islanders who until this month have had to drive to the district headquarters to watch board Kaytin, 4 years old, meetings where Padre Island has celebrates Easter. traditionally been underrepresented. It was a strange Easter on our little island. A report last month from the Aquarius Comptroller’s office shows $3,201,589,196 in taxable property Getting New in the district with $2.3 billion of that Progress on A little Island history on Padre Island. Playground That means Island taxpayers will foot Park Road 22 around $40 million of a $60 million The Karankawas Had Equipment bond package being discussed by that Water Exchange By Dale Rankin board and likely to turn up on a ballot Their Quirks later this year. The last bond package Bridge Project issued by the school district was in By Dale Rankin Editor’s note: The following was always well oiled and polished. an off-season and under-publicized compiled by historians doing Strings were kept in perfect election in May, 2013 in which $48 Sources at Corpus Christi City Hall research prior to the founding of condition. An arrow was a yard million in bonds were approved by said this week that talks to begin Padre Island National Seashore long; and a half-inch in diameter. only an 82-vote margin with only 456 digging the canal leading to the Park fifty-two years ago this month. It carried a head about three inches Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge are long which was set in the cleft of total votes cast. FBISD taxes make Karankawa tools, utensils, progressing and an announcement on the shaft and wound with sinew. up half of the property tax burden for and weapons were simple and a start date on the canal is imminent. Three feathers completed the Island taxpayers and no matter which primitive. They consisted of arrow. The Karankawas knew no way any bond vote may go our voice The $13.9 million project is funded knives, scrapers, and some pottery. equal in the power and accuracy of needs to be heard. We will keep you and a construction contract from the The oval pots were decorated with This equipment at Aquarius Park their shots with the bow and arrow. informed as things develop and being city is in the hands of Haas-Anderson black lines and figures. The most will be replaced. able to view the meetings live on-line Construction, Inc. pending progress prominent Karankawa implement is a positive step. A wandering tribe on construction of the canal leading was the bow and arrow, which was Aquarius Park on Padre Island will to the bridge on the west side of the truly amazing. In length the bow Karankawa settlement pattern was Life under lockdown nomadic. They roamed the coastal get new playground equipment under roadway. extended from a warrior's foot to a move approved by the Corpus A check of the Police Blotter in prairie, following the seasons and The sources say the two owners his chin: it was at times as long Christi City Council on Tuesday. recent issues shows a big uptick in as six feet. Made of red cedar, the the food supply. They probably the number of Suspicious Person of the land which the canal will stayed three to four weeks in each The Chairman of the city’s Parks and transverse, Axys Capital and bow was about two inches wide calls. We’re not sure if there are more in the center and one and one-half location before moving on. They Recreation Advisory Board, Dotson Suspicious People turning up or just International Bank of Commerce, are returned to the same campsites Lewis, said the equipment has been close to working out the final details inches thick. The string was made more people home to be suspicious of twisted deer sinew and was year after year. Although the stored for several years awaiting of them. to allow construction of the canal to Karankawas moved away from the funding for installation, that funding begin. about one-quarter inch in diameter. Being the Karankawas' single most coastal islands during the winter, was approved Tuesday and the city important implement, a bow was staff said the new equipment will be History cont. on A4 Around cont. on A4 Aquarius cont. on A4 April 16, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Island Kids Celebrate Easter

Addison Huber 8, Gracyn Harmon 8, Madelyn Huber 2 and Peyton Huber 10 in their Easter outfits..

Adorable Landrey Gabrel age 5. Benji 3 months old dressed up for Easter. Lila (age 2 1/2) and Palmer (5 months) Park.

Daisy age 2 hunting for eggs in her backyard.

Elli age 5 and Lily Age 7 in their cute matching Easter dresses.

Ellie Venegas in her pretty bunny dress is in the 3rd grade.

Dapper Weston is 3 years old.

Grace and Elizabeth Towns got straight out of bed for the hunt.

Layla Grace Aguirre age 3.

Landon 2nd grade with his creative eggs. The Taylor family could not visit their Cousins in San Antonio so they hid Easter Eggs on their boat and yard! Colin 2nd Grade at Seashore.

Mom's little bunny Bodhi is 3 months old. Lulu found cash in her egg.

Marisa 14 months in her cute bunny outfit.

Peterson family said they can't always get a Ricky is in 6th grade and sis Alondra is in good pic. This cute little bunny is Cooper Anthony 5th grade. Kensey Nebgen 1st grade. Hagens 5 weeks old.

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Abigail Bair Sarah Greaud Photography for doing this and Contributing Writers thank you The Island Moon Newspaper for Joey Farah sharing this with our Island Community! THIS This playground equipment was made by the same Wisconsin Company Andy Purvis is what community is...... that will be producing the one for Aquarius Park. Mary Craft Cheri Sperling Scuttlebutts is serving their Covid-19 Special Edition Happy Hour menu 3 - Emily Gaines I love being a part of this community! 7 pm every day, drive up carryout only. The menu will include their popular Jay Gardner Sarah Ducote Greaud all at half price sushi, wings, peel & eat shrimp, onion petals and more. Much Todd Hunter of what was on their regular menu is also available at regular price. To order Dotson Lewis Thank you for the fun pictures. Stay healthy call 949-6769 or go to Shop Now on their Facebook page. Dr. Tom Dorrell Cheryl Gustafson JB’s German Bakery has reopened with curbside pickup and a Covid-19 Ronnie Narmour These are so awesome!!! What cute families. menu. The menu includes some breads, pastries, gulasch, schnitzel, Brent Rourk fleischkaes, roasted pork, bratwurst and sides. They are open Wednesday - Shelly Walton Photographers Saturday 11 am - 2 pm. To order call or text 949-5474. Please show more! This was so cool. Wishing Miles Merwin (Emeritus) Padre Island Mail Plus is selling disposal surgical masks in packs of I wasn't in Missouri, but on the beach in Texas 10. Store hours Monday - Friday 9am - 6 pm and Saturday 9 am - noon. Debbie Noble with no nasty virus snapping at us! Thanks for Jan Rankin sharing! I may have to make a toilet paper hat Bob Hall Pier has re-opened and the hours are 8 am - 8 pm. Mary Craft though... The Island Moon Newspaper is not being distributed to as many locations since businesses are closed. You can now pick up papers at HEB, CVS, Dollar General, gas stations on the Island, Ronnie Narmour Teresa Johnson Ace, Subway, Mail N More, Stripes on Flour Bluff Drive and IGA in Port A. Office Security/Spillage Control (Emeritus) Way to go Sarah Ducote Greaud!!! Thank you Mikel May’s Beachside Grill is open Wednesday - Sunday noon - 7:30 pm. You can enjoy a walk on the beach Riley P. Dog for everything you do for Seashore! and then order a drink with an appetizer or entree to-go and relax on the beach for lunch or dinner. The restaurant/ Adrienne Isaminger Levandowski bar is open even when they close Bob Hall Pier. It only closes when they close the beach as they did on Easter On Waves signs down: weekend. IBC sunk all that money to just close indefinitely? Something has to be in the plans? Kevin Hendrickson The sings were new hopefully they just took them down so they don't get weathered while they are closed. 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The walls are up on the IGA grocery store. Plans call for it to be open by summer 2020. April 16, 2020 Island Moon A 4 History cont. from A1 TAMU-CC Teams Up With City, County to the availability of food was a greater determinant Easter on of their wanderings than the climate. Provide Models to Predict Pandemic’s Path The Karankawas derived their mobility from in the Coastal Bend the use of an unusual canoe or pirogue. They the Island apparently did not have many horses and may By Darrell J. Pehr state, county, and city took. The models also have been poor horsemen. About twenty feet allow us to test different strategies and will Texas A&M Corpus Christi long, the pirogue was constructed by hollowing allow our decision makers to compare options out a log. Leaving the bark on the outside, the A joint team from Texas A&M University- while considering other factors such as likely builder blunted the ends. The boat was then Corpus Christi, the City of Corpus Christi, economic impact.” ready to move the family across a lagoon to and Nueces County has developed three Tissot noted that instead of spending a lot the next camp site or make a quick getaway to models that can predict the number of cases of of time creating models from scratch, the escape an enemy attack. COVID-19 in the Coastal Bend and the impact researchers looked at existing models that could on local hospitals, depending on mitigation A lodge called a ba-ak was the Karankawa be used for this purpose. dwelling. It was built of willow poles about measures, how well they are followed, and the eighteen feet long and an inch and a half in characteristics of the local population. “Predictions were needed as soon as possible and there were good open-source, vetted diameter. The poles were sharpened on one At the meeting of the Corpus Christi City options available,” Tissot said. “The team or both ends. The ends were then stuck in the Council Friday, the team shared the models reviewed existing models that were already ground in the shape of a circle with each pole along with predictions for the next three to four used to predict the COVID-19 impact including being about a yard apart. Undressed deerskins months based on the information they presently the ones used by the White House. The team were placed over the frame. Smoke from a have. They will continue to improve the models selected three models that could be adapted to fire within the lodge drifted out a side left based on new information. uncovered. Measuring from ten to twelve feet in the Coastal Bend.” Dr. Chris Bird, Associate Professor of Biology, diameter such a lodge could house two families The team is combining data about the virus and explained the project and discussed the or from seven to eight people. It provided from other places where the pandemic has had a large differences between a scenario without adequate shelter and, equally important, was greater effect with data from the Coastal Bend. precaution and one that follows the present easily transportable. The team also will compare predictions of these measures. Social structure three models with two different models being “We would be facing hundreds of COVID-19 run by others for the full state of Texas. Very little is known about Karankawa social deaths in the coming few weeks if we were not Tissot said the process can be compared to The Carrier boys Oliver age 5 Charlie age 6 organization, the band was the largest social and taking these steps,” said Bird, who typically hurricane predictions. Emmett age 3. political group. Each band had both a civil and studies molecular genomics to advance a war chief, but the decision-making powers of understanding of marine species and promote “The three models have different assumptions each are unknown. The family was the primary the sustainability of marine ecosystems. and mechanics and give us a better idea of what will happen, a little bit like the spaghetti social and economic unit within the band. The models outline three scenarios: what would diagrams predicting a hurricane’s path,” Kinship was reckoned patrilineally. Marriage, be happening if social distancing and stay-at- Tissot said. “Also, this is a new virus that we which often took place among members of home orders had not been put in place; what are constantly learning more about. While the different bands, was arranged by the parents. would happen if such orders were ended today; virus is the same everywhere, it will propagate Although the Karankawas were monogamous, and what would happen if these measures stay differently in New York, Italy, and China as divorce was easy, especially when there were no in place and are followed by the public. children. The nature of elite groups or classes, compared to the Coastal Bend. We need to take if any, is unknown. Young men went through a Results between the first two scenarios were that into account and learn from the developing period of training and testing before reaching somewhat similar but showed a big difference local data.” if social distancing and stay-at-home orders warrior status, at which time they were tattooed. Tissot said an important component of the stayed in place. One graphic presented at the process is the collection and flow of information Those who knew the tribe noted a number of meeting showed that if no measures had been from the hospitals and the testing labs. unusual habits and customs. The Karankawas taken, the Coastal Bend would have as many were weepers, i.e., they cried out of both as 300,000 cases of COVID-19 by mid-April. “The city, county, and individual hospitals happiness and sadness at the slightest occasion. If measures ended today, the Coastal Bend still have started to provide this crucial information A number of taboos characterized personal could see up to 200,000 cases by mid-May. and we are building with them this information relationships. According to many Texans the If measures continue, a peak in cases could pipeline that will feed the models,” he said. “The Karankawas would not look one in the eye when be delayed until late May with an estimate of team is also working on dashboards similar engaged in conversation nor would they reveal 10,000-87,000 cases. to the one already provided by the university their Indian names. As one can imagine, such to track the pandemic in Texas (https://www. Lillie is 7, Noah 9 and Henry 4. “It does show some pretty dramatic impacts of manners made a very bad impression on people conradblucherinstitute.org/covid19).” who found virtue in "looking a man straight in how, by us following the orders that have been the eye." In addition the Karankawas gave the put in place of social distancing and staying The A&M-Corpus Christi team includes Dr. appearance of ennui. As a result they quickly at home, why it matters,” Corpus Christi City Chris Bird, Associate Professor of Biology; Dr. gained a reputation as being slovenly, worthless Manager Peter Zanoni said. The city approached Lucy Huang, Associate Professor of Geographic and lazy. Another taboo involved intra-tribal University leaders President Kelly M. Miller Information Science and coordinator of the family relationships. Once a man married, he and Vice President for Research and Innovation Geospatial Systems Engineering Program in the could not enter his bride's former home nor Ahmed Mahdy last week for help in studying Department of Computer Sciences; and Marine could his parents-in-law visit his lodge or that the situation and creating the models. Biology Ph.D. candidate Jason Selwyn as lead modelers for the taskforce. Many others are of his children. In addition, they never spoke to “It was without hesitation that they assembled gathering and verifying information, building each other and would go out of their way to avoid a team of research scientists to help our the information pipeline, and developing the an encounter. The Karankawas felt silence was community better understand and project eventual dashboards that will provide the the best way to avoid family fighting, especially COVID-19 infections and the impact they information to the public. disputes over inheritance. The family of the would have on our regional medical facilities,” bride was expected to lose all contact with their Zanoni said. Faculty and researchers from CBI, the Life daughter and with their grandchildren. Still Sciences and Computer Sciences departments The team studied transmission ratios across another taboo involved speaking the name of a and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences Texas to make predictions about how rapidly dead person. The Karankawas never did, fearing form the core of the team as it collaborates with the virus would spread here. that if the dead man's spirit heard his name, he staff at the city, county, and local hospitals. would awaken, be displeased, and cause harm “Pandemics are very rare but this is also why Ph.D. students Evan Krell and Mahmoud Lily age 5 found the golden egg. to the person who had disturbed him. it is difficult for all of us to come to grasp Eldefrawy are working with Dr. Scott King, A "choice gastronomical treat." with how quickly things can evolve,” said Dr. chair of the Computer Sciences Department, Philippe Tissot, Interim Director of the Conrad to automate the data flow processes. CBI Of all the Karankawa behavioral traits which Blucher Institute (CBI) at Texas A&M-Corpus undergraduate research assistant Audrey Garza the Euroamerican found strange or repugnant, Christi. “At the start of the epidemic, using the is helping gather and process data. Others in one stood out above all others. Like other analogy of a fire, you go from a few community the health care community are also lending Gulf Coast tribes, the Karankawa practiced brush fires, to before you know it, within weeks, their expertise, including Mike Mohat, Senior cannibalism. Many Spaniards and Texans were a full forest fire.” Director for Emergency/Intensive Services at convinced human flesh was a standard part Driscoll Children’s Hospital. of Karankawa diet and were understandably Tissot said this “forest fire effect” is what has horrified. A Texas journalist, who included happened in places such as Wuhan, China, While the researchers at CBI and elsewhere the word cannibal in his book about the tribe, Italy or . For the Coastal Bend, across the university are currently applying claimed that the Karankawas considered human initially, it will be more a matter of anticipating their unique skills to this crisis situation, flesh a "choice gastronomical treat." This what is yet to come. CBI normally focuses on coastal monitoring, is untrue. Like members of other primitive “The models’ projections and visuals provide mapping shorelines for beach erosion studies, cultures who practiced cannibalism, the the public comparisons of what can happen very oceanic/atmospheric predictions, and other Karankawas ate human flesh out of superstition. quickly if we do not apply strong mitigation related research. They also work to provide They did not have any special attachment to measures,” Tissot said. “The graphics provide for the unique needs of Texas surveyors by such consumption. The Karankawas felt that a comparison of where we would be heading developing strong continuing education and by consuming the flesh of an enemy they at the without the mitigation measures that our research programs in GIS and Geomatics. same time transferred his strength and other virtues to themselves. Aquarius cont. from A1 Around cont. from A1 Another popular idea of Karankawa customs Brittany Nicole Cora -3 wks old with herone A check of the Real Estate Ticker in recent maintains that they were indifferent to children in place by October. A total of $739,150 was year old brother, Sebastian . and purposely killed female offspring in order approved for new equipment in fourteen parks issues shows that the Island real estate market is to assure that the girls would not marry into around the city. The money comes from required still robust. Things are selling. Now whether the an enemy tribe and thus increase its strength, donations from developers to be used for real estate buyers are the Suspicious Persons we The first is untrue and the second questionable. improvements to city parks within a five-mile can’t say…but in these times we’ll take good According to Cabeza de Vaca , who lived radius of the location of any new developments news wherever we can find it. among the Karankawas as a slave and shaman through the Community Enrichment Fund. The Hang in there everybody, we’ll get through for several years in the sixteenth century, they work will be done by PlayCore Wisconsin, Inc. this, and say hello if you see us Around The loved children. Alice Oliver, who knew the dba GameTime. Island. tribe during their last years in the 1830s, noted no young girls and few children. Although it Padre Island has a total of 49 acres of city is possible the Karankawas practiced female parkland donated by the original developers of infanticide, there is too little documentation of Padre Island prior to annexation in 1981. They the subject to prove it conclusively. had the option of donating money or land to establish parks and most chose to donate land. Some accounts of the tribe maintain that the As part of the original rules for Padre Island Karankawas were morose and dour and that development the original developers could also they played no games. This is also untrue. chose to donate additional land for parks in lieu Among their games were wrestling, hatchet of installing sidewalks. Most developers took throwing, bow and arrow shooting, and ball that option which resulted in few sidewalks games. Like many North American Indians, along Padre Island streets. the Karankawas were animated and cheering spectators at sporting events. 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April 16, 2020 Island Moon A 5 Stuff I Heard on the Island By Dale Rankin Tides of the Week he refused to come out The recent passing of after several hours of Tides for Bob Hall Pier April 16 - April 23 singer Kenny Rogers negotiation. Jackson was Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time Moon brought a text from an old sent for and when he friend and photographer who I worked with drove up and opened the /Low Time in Feet Sunset Visible in the television dodge years ago reminiscing trunk of his car there was Th 16 Low 4:54 AM 0.2 7:03 AM Rise 3:39 AM 41 about a three-day shoot and party at the old an arsenal that included 16 High 1:56 PM 1.7 7:55 PM Set 2:34 PM a BAR. But all Jackson took out was a bullhorn. F 17 Low 6:07 AM 0.4 7:02 AM Rise 4:18 AM 32 “This is Joaquin 17 High 2:15 PM 1.6 7:55 PM Set 3:28 PM Jackson,” he said in the 17 Low 8:24 PM 1.1 Happy Shahan at direction of the house. Alamo Village. “If you aren’t outside in 17 High 11:30 PM 1.2 one minute I’m coming Sa 18 Low 7:11 AM 0.5 7:01 AM Rise 4:53 AM 23 in.” It took well under a minute for the suspect 18 High 2:21 PM 1.5 7:56 PM Set 4:21 PM to come out with his hands in the air. Jackson, who died in 2016, was about as close to a real- 18 Low 8:30 PM 1.0 life as you could get only his Su 19 High 1:04 AM 1.3 7:00 AM Rise 5:26 AM 16 stories were real. 19 Low 8:08 AM 0.6 7:56 PM Set 5:13 PM Alamo replica at Alamo Village. On movie and television sets there is a lot more time spent standing around than shooting and 19 High 2:23 PM 1.4 Alamo Village movie set in Brackettville near 19 Low 8:43 PM 0.8 Del Rio. M 20 High 2:18 AM 1.4 6:59 AM Rise 5:57 AM 9 The place was the stuff of legend since it was where John Wayne built his replica of The 20 Low 9:02 AM 0.8 7:57 PM Set 6:05 PM Alamo during the shooting of the movie of the 20 High 2:25 PM 1.3 same name there in 1960. I had heard many 20 Low 8:58 PM 0.7 stories from old reporters who had been there during the shooting of the movie and its premier Tu 21 High 3:21 AM 1.5 6:58 AM Rise 6:27 AM 4 at the Woodlawn Theater in San Antonio. Most 21 Low 9:55 AM 0.9 7:57 PM Set 6:56 PM recently it had been one of the sets for the Lonesome Dove television mini-series so when 21 High 2:29 PM 1.3 the chance came to spend some time there I 21 Low 9:13 PM 0.5 went. W 22 High 4:18 AM 1.6 6:57 AM Rise 6:57 AM 1 B Movieville 22 Low 10:54 AM 1.1 7:58 PM Set 7:48 PM The occasion was the 22 High 2:30 PM 1.2 shooting of the mostly John Wayne and the cast of The Alamo at forgettable made-for- Alamo Village. 22 Low 9:30 PM 0.4 television show El Th 23 High 5:11 AM 1.7 6:56 AM Rise 7:28 AM 0 Diablo starring Rogers 23 Low 12:09 PM 1.1 7:58 PM Set 8:40 PM in one of his Gambler personas, singers Travis 23 High 2:19 PM 1.2 Tritt and Naomi Judd 23 Low 9:50 PM 0.2 as Flora Mae Pepper the owner of a brothel. The plot was straight out of B-Movieville, an Happy Shahan and oater involving a bounty John Wayne at Alamo hunter and a bunch of Village during filming horses. of The Alamo. A few months before we had been following the Rio Grande in Chopper Five when we looked down and saw what looked for all the world like Kenny Rogers played bass in the a ghost town hard against the banks of New Christy Minstrels. the river. There was no one around so we sat down in the middle of the dusty main street while most of the buildings at Alamo Village and were completely were nothing but facades the saloon was a baffled at what we working place and the green room for swapping were looking at until stories and over the course of three days we we found a weather- heard some whoppers. These were the days beaten sign that said when you could still safely cross the river and “Lonesome Dove” Ma Crosby’s in Acuna was our preferred spot and we realized we for some Cross Border Cultural Exchange. Over were in the middle of the course of three days I interviewed the cast a set for the series. We looked everywhere for a sign that said, “Uva uvam vivendo varia fit” (We don’t Texas Drilling Permits and Completions rent pigs) but never found one. We were Statistics for March 2020 also trespassing on a private ranch which we were soon apprised of by a man who arrived on The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a In March 2020, Commission staff processed horseback. total of 744 original drilling permits in March 1054 oil, 313 gas and 240 injection completions 2020 compared to 1,137 in March 2019. The for new drills, re-entries and re-completions, When we got to Alamo Village we saw not only March 2020 total includes 671 permits to drill compared to 493 oil, 127 gas, and 43 injection the replica of the Alamo built by Wayne more new oil or gas wells, six to re-enter plugged completions in March 2019. than thirty years before, we also saw a replica well bores and 56 for re-completions of existing of downtown San Antonio during the late 1870s well bores. Total well completions processed for 2020 when Lonesome Dove was set. There was San A herd of longhorns were driven through year to date for new drills, re-entries and re- Alamo Village during the shooting of The breakdown of well types for original completions are 3,857, compared to 2469 Lonesome Dove. drilling permits in March 2020 is 189 oil, 43 recorded during the same time period in 2019. gas, 468 oil or gas, 40 injection, and four other and got plenty of time to talk to Rogers. We had permits. some common ground since he had spent some time in my neighborhood in Portland when the New Christy Minstrels were based there, along with Don Williams who led singing at our Ask Ralph church. I tried my best to wrangle a walk-on in El Diablo, you know like the guy who shouts, Improve Productivity “Let’s hang him sheriff!”…or something like By Ralph Coker without interruption. Avoiding interruption that but it was not to be. Even in Texas lack of a takes self discipline to turn off e-mails, smart SAG card was a show stopper. Q. How can I improve my phones and social media. productivity as a manager? Long gone On the other hand, if you reach a mental A. The trend now is for business managers block on a task and can't come up with the and owners to do more by doing less. That right solution, walk away. Put it on hold. requires strictly controlling your time spent Give your subconscious mind time to work communicating, avoiding interruptions and on it. Our conscious mind can only do one delegating. Many managers feel compelled A man carries away his John Wayne poster at calculation at a time. Our subconscious mind to know everything about everything by the auction.. can do many. constantly communicating by e-mail, social media, smart phone and attending meetings. One manager can do only one day's work regardless how hard or long they work. With If you analyze it, most of that good delegation that manager can multiply communication is trivia. It produces no their personal output by the number of their useful information you need to manage your subordinates. Hire good subordinates who business. Screen your address book and are capable and willing to take on challenges keep only those you need to communicate and work with minimum supervision. Train The bar where Gus McCray smashed the with for essential direction, information, them well. If you make a mistake and hire bartenders nose into the bar. collaboration, coordination, help, advice and the wrong person, replace them. When you reporting. Of those remaining, monitor their assign projects explain the end goal. That communication but only respond if you need keeps them focused and encourages big to. Monitoring communication is not time The Alamo with a replica of the Long picture thinking. consuming. Responding is. Barracks at Alamo Village. Give clear, attainable deadlines with Studies show that frequent interruptions intermediate mileposts if the project is reduce a manager's productivity by 40 percent Fernando Cathedral and the Buckhorn Saloon long and complex. Put one subordinate in and increase stress. The stress comes from just like you were riding into town with wild charge. Word teams without leaders don't having to keep shifting your attention from Indians on your trail. Rio Diablo was being shot work. Don't assign similar tasks to multiple task to task. Interruption interferes with your for the CBS network which was our affiliate in subordinates. That's duplication of effort. An auction was held at Alamo Village when it focus and focus is essential for complicated San Antonio so we pretty much had the run of the Don't micromanage. Monitor progress but closed. work. place and I got to spend time talking to Happy don't interfere if the project is progressing on Shahan who owned Alamo Village and had a bit Managers perform complicated mental schedule. part in The Outlaw Josey Wales. John Wayne tasks requiring the use of lots of information Happy Shahan passed away a few years later Recognize and celebrate project mileposts. financed and produced The Alamo himself and they have stored in their brain. Interruptions and Alamo Village fell on hard times. The place Instead of choosing subordinates for a project, was about to start shooting in Mexico when are like computer glitches; they wipe that closed in 2010 and after several unsuccessful describe the project and ask for volunteers. Shahan visited Hollywood and persuaded him information out or distort it. It takes time attempts to revive it the props that accumulated People like to work on projects that use their to use Alamo Village instead. to replace it. It's a lot more productive to there over the years were sold at auction in best skills and create satisfaction. What turns perform a complex task through to completion Real life John Wayne 2018. I thought about going but decided that one person on will not appeal to another. some places are better remembered as they Shahan later managed singer Johnny Rodriguez were. For me it wasn’t the set of El Diablo, after getting a call from legendary Texas Ranger it was the place where they drove a herd of Joaquin Jackson who was also there for part longhorns down the main street of San Antonio of the El Diablo shoot. Jackson had heard in the 1870s while Gus and Call tuned up the Rodriguez singing in the local jail after being bartender at the Buckhorn Saloon and John arrested for stealing a goat and called Shahan. Wayne died defending the Alamo. Send letters and photos to editor@ In the mid-1980s a man had shot and killed the sheriff a in a county I can’t remember west of And so it goes. islandmoon.com San Antonio and had holed up in a house where A6 Island Moon April 16, 2020 Senior Moments Something to Chew On The Sixteenth Amendment the post Civil War bicycle craze by making tires, but the stuff was not durable enough. Rain boots? Same problem. Toys? The kids yawned. By Dotson Lewis One day Adams was in a drug store when Special to the Island Moon a little girl came in and asked for a piece of chewing gum. Dotson’s Note: In the event you don’t Pollock was met with popular outrage. remember the gist of the 16th Amendment, it is The Populists and later the Progressives put "What's this gum made from?" he asked the what gave you the privilege of paying what the opposition to Pollock at the center of their pharmacist IRS annually requests. The 16th states in part: political program. But how could they reverse "Paraffin wax." “The Congress shall have power to lay and it? Many argued that Pollock was so obviously collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source wrong that a constitutional amendment was "How does it sell?" derived, without apportionment among the "The kids love it!" several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” Thanks to Joseph R. Fishkin, And so the Adams Chewing Gum Company William E. Forbath, Erik M. Jensen & Coleman was born. P. Buke, for the facts contained in this report. Which should make you shake your head, Thanks to one of my friends, who is a CPA for because that's exactly what chicle was used for the photos. in Mexico. Adams and Santa Anna were classic The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, over-thinkers. Within a few years, almost all played a central role in building up the powerful chewing gum sold in America was chicle based. American federal government of the twentieth The kids preferred it to chewing wax almost century by making it possible to enact a as much as Texans preferred freedom to Santa modern, nationwide income tax. Before long, Anna. Strangely enough, at the exact same time the income tax would become by far the federal Santa Anna during the chicle days Adams was turning Santa Anna's chicle into government’s largest source of revenue. This a chewing gum fortune, a young Galveston Amendment was part of a wave of federal and It was 1869. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna pharmacist was on the verge of doing the same state constitutional amendments championed had been run out of Mexico (again) and was thing. by Progressives in the early twentieth century. renting a room in the home of a New York City Unfortunately for J. J. Schott, his financial The Amendment reversed an 1895 Supreme photographer. backers abandoned him when his first shipment Court decision that had made a nationwide How does a former dictator earn a living? If of chicle arrived, and he was forced to sell it income tax effectively impossible by invoking you're Santa Anna you hatch money-making in wholesale lots to move it quickly. To entice what now seems a hidden distinction between schemes with your landlord. That's where chicle buyers, Schott offered his secret of sweetening “direct” and “indirect” taxes. comes in. the chicle and infusing it with mint flavoring. The Taxing Clause in Article I, Section 8, It's the boiled down sap of a Mexican evergreen. One of Schott's wholesale buyers was Philip K. grants Congress the broad “Power To lay and The name means "sticky stuff" in the Nahautl Wrigley of , who's resulting chewing collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” but language. Santa Anna convinced his landlord, gum empire allowed him to buy the Chicago Article I also provides (twice) that a “direct” Senator Norris Brown Thomas Adams, that the stuff had commercial Cubs. tax must be apportioned among the states on potential. First they tried to take advantage of the basis of population. This means that if a unnecessary: given a chance, the Court would tax is a “direct” tax, a state with one-tenth of admit error and overturn Pollock. But getting the national population must bear one-tenth of another case before the Court would have Island Moon on a Spoon the total liability. It doesn’t matter whether one required Congress to enact a new unapportioned state has lots of whatever is being taxed (such as tax. That would have looked like an attack on valuable land) and another state has very little— the Court—not a good strategic move—and, the states have to bear the burden according anyway, who could be sure the Court would Brunch Potato Waffles & to population. That requirement makes direct change its mind? Amending the Constitution taxation cumbersome, and often impossible. was also risky, however. The amendment Smoked Salmon For other taxes—the so-called “indirect” process is slow, and if the effort failed, an taxes—there is no apportionment rule. The income tax would be delayed indefinitely. By Chef Vita Jarrin Constitution requires only that “all Duties, It became clear that, if only for political reasons, Here is a fun and unique breakfast / lunch treat 1 side of smoked salmon (vacuum sealed in Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout an unapportioned income tax was impossible that will be remembered by your family for seafood cooler) the United States.” This is a relatively easy without an amendment. What form should it some time to come. Imagine a fun twist on the 1 medium red onion diced for topping requirement to satisfy: what’s taxed and the take? Some advocated repealing the direct-tax traditional bagels, cream cheese and smoked tax rates mustn’t vary from state to state. In the clauses, so that we’d never again have to ponder salmon or also known as gravlax. Using a Lemon slices and chives for garnish nineteenth century, most of the government’s differences between direct and indirect taxes. lighter, thinner, crispy potato waffle, instead In a medium saucepan cover the potatoes with revenue came from “duties, imposts and But the resolution’s sponsor, Nebraska Senator of a heavy, doughy bagel, will give guests a excises” on consumption of various goods. Norris Brown chose instead to give Congress a lightly salted water by 2 inches. Bring to a lighter more enjoyable treat, and leave room to boil, reduce to medium and cook until tender, Thus, whether a tax is direct or indirect has new, clear power to enact “taxes on incomes”— eat your other delicious fare. without apportionment. about 15 minutes. Drain, transfer to a large mattered—a lot. So what is a “direct tax”? At a Another great thing about this potato waffle, bowl, mash the potatoes with 2 Tbs. of the minimum, it includes “capitations” (specifically Congress passed the resolution in 1909, and is the diverse toppings you can offer. If you butter, then stir in the cream. mentioned in the Constitution and generally the amendment was ratified four years later; set up a buffet, guests can top the waffle with a understood to be lump-sum head taxes—each Congress enacted a nationwide (unapportioned) Add salt, pepper, cayenne and nutmeg. Cool slice of ham and an over medium egg. They can until tepid person pays the same) and also taxes on land. individual income tax in 1913. The country has smear on a dollop of cream cheese and berry The Framers thought these were “direct.” But had one ever since, and the Supreme Court has jam, or top it with chicken and drizzle with Heat waffle iron according to manufacturer’s that may be it. An early Supreme Court case, had little reason to focus on the Amendment that maple syrup. instructions. Hylton v. United States (1796), approving an makes this possible. The power to tax incomes unapportioned tax on carriages, said as much, has proved very broad. So grab a mimosa and in the nineteenth century the Supreme Court and impress your Still, it is possible that we could in the future upheld several other kinds of unapportioned guests with this twist have another debate about “direct” versus taxes against constitutional challenges. In on an ole time classic. “indirect” taxes. In Eisner v. Macomber (1920), Springer v. United States (1881), the Court even Hopefully you have a the Court struck down an unapportioned income approved the unapportioned Civil War income good waffle iron, but tax as applied to certain stock dividends, tax. if not, they are fairly holding that they effectively fell on property, inexpensive and can The world was soon turned upside down, not income; other cases from the 1920s made get them at Target or however. In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust similar distinctions. Today, most commentators even the HEB! You Co. (1895), a badly divided Court struck down think those cases are no longer good law, but can make them ahead the 1894 income tax on the ground that it was they haven’t been overruled, and Chief Justice of time and keep In direct but not apportioned. John Roberts favorably cited both Pollock and the oven on low, low Congress had enacted the 1894 tax as a Macomber in his opinion in NFIB v. Sebelius heat to stay warm, reaction against the consumption taxes that (2012), which approved the core of Obamacare. until your are ready to had funded the federal government for most of If some future Supreme Court decides to impose serve and eat! new limits on Congress’s power to tax, these old its history. Consumption taxes overburdened Ingredients: lower-income persons. The income tax, in characterization questions could reappear. contrast, was structured to reach the wealthy, In the meantime, the Sixteenth Amendment 2 large baking russet whose income came from investments. With matters most because it has forever changed potatoes (around a Hylton and Springer on the books, almost no the character of the United States government, lb. )peeled and cut one thought the income tax was a “direct” tax from a modest central government dependent into 1-inch cubes that would need to be apportioned. Precedent on consumption taxes and tariffs on imports to 5 Tbsp. challenge aside, this would make no sense: if an income the much more powerful, modern government butter, cut into 1/2- tax were apportioned among the states, a poor that fought two World Wars and the Cold War inch cubes state with the same population as a rich state with the vast revenue that came from the federal would need to bear the same total tax liability, income tax. 1/2 C Heavy Whipping cream In a food processor pulse the flour, baking which would mean tax rates in the poorer state powder 5 times. Add remaining 3 Tbs. butter Dotson’s Other Note: Since many of you Moon 1 cup all-purpose flour sifted would have to be higher than those in the richer and pulse until mixture is coarse, 15-20 times. Monkeys are “Confined to Quarters”, as I am, state. 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I’ll let you know I changed the topic. “How is Juan’s online and medicines”, she repeated louder, waking caution to the wind when it how that plays out. school progressing?” I asked, referring to me from my negative bird walk of apocalyptic comes to our parenting styles. her 4-year-old grandson’s online school. All thoughts. Our kids have now been home for 6 weeks, and In keeping with the tone of “rolling with it”, I came across a workout dice game, and thought schools are also closed in Bogota, so Juan has “When will they open? Soon? Next week? Has let’s face it, creativity can only so far when we a pre-school class online complete with teacher, are limited to our own personal space. We are I might share with you Island parents. What a the government said anything about that?” I great way to get out some of that energy while instruction, and activities. Maria is helping Juan asked. conquering the daily task of not making our kids with the class. feel like their ‘grounded’, and doing our best to interacting with our kiddos. You can take turns “We have to stay in our homes until the middle maintain what’s left of our sanity. I don’t know rolling the dice and get a workout along with “Juan did not want to wear his regular clothes of April [as of today, March 31st that mandatory about you, but I’ve only got one more place left a giggle. For extra fun, grab a second dice and for his online class today and the teacher told ‘stay sheltered’ order was extended until mid- to hide in this house that my darling children draw a face for each number. Each person has him that he cannot wear pajamas because June]. We don’t know”, she said. haven’t found me in yet, and I’m saving that one to make that face and hold it for the duration all students must wear regular clothes. Juan “I miss you”, Maria said with pink beginning for week eight. of the task. is sometimes very stubborn. This is very complicated”, Maria declared. suddenly to paint her face. Most of us have seen the movie Groundhog Due to the few submissions for the writing Day with Bill Murray as ‘Phil’, where he’s contest, it has been extended to the end of the “Really. How is it complicated”, I inquired, stuck in a never ending loop of the same day month. aiming to keep the conversation on something over and over again. I’m sure we can all relate Short story- 509-750 words. Prizes-$75 & other than the perceived hopelessness ringing in to Phil right now. There’s a turning point in the $25 Amazon cards. Please send submissions to Bogota as well as other places throughout the movie was where Phil had his breakthrough, [email protected] globe. and he gave in. Phil decides he’ll ‘just roll with “Juan is very stubborn [at this point she went back to her native Spanish because she was frustrated]. He will listen to the teacher most of The Barnacle Line the time, but when I am working with him, he By Del Smith But why do they have to put them in such tight, tells me he does not want to work. I don’t know what to do. He is so stubborn.” she concluded. Been finding myselfcan’t-get-to-the-impeller, places? ----- That’s wedged down in an engine because of Aunt Nell. You see sailboat designers “Yes sweetie, I have noticed throughout the room, a lot, these past few always try to cram as much stuff down below as years in education that sometimes children Maria and I during pre-virus days in Bolivia. days. Small engine room. possible. You know, sleeps six, makes love for can be stubborn and many parents have shared twelve. All of this just so Aunt Nell and her hard, their frustration with me about their stubborn Sailboat sized. Real tight “I miss you too babe. Stay calm and positive. fit it is. Even for my skinny square suitcase can go with you to the Rockport children. Do you have consequences for him? Arts’ Festival. ---- Engine rooms designed for Do you try to make it fun? Are you calm? Can This will end”, I said, trying to convince myself butt. Bump heads. Scrape elbows. Bruise your as much as I was trying to reassure her. chest, where the temperature gauge sender fits maintenance? ------Tis to laugh. you engage him and make it interesting? What into the space between fifth and sixth rib; port So here I am, contorting my body, creating We began to say our goodbyes as she fought side. If I wrap my arm around that, hold my head contusions and bruises in unimaginable hard not to cry again. Living in Colombia half just so, I can just reach the bolt that holds the places, trying to bring back-to-life, yet another time I am vary familiar with the size of the city what’s-a-ma-call-it on. Can’t get a wrench on it. Atomic-4 sailboat engine. The most prolific and how it is a busy, bustling historical city -- But I can reach it. Have to create a whole new power plant for sailboats, ever. A plus sixty year constantly full of people, activity, traffic, and contortion to be able to get the _____ thing off. old design that has found its way into so many proud people going about their daily lives. I cannot imagine it looking like a modern-day Why is it that sailboats have such tight engine different size and designed sailboats ever since the advent of boats made out of plastic. ghost town, but I saw photographs of it this rooms? And while we are asking questions; --- morning and wondered how they will survive --- why do they need engines anyway? Aren’t Then everybody started to want diesels, about until June. Then I remembered what a doctor they a sailboat after all? thirty years ago, for safety and reliability. Yes here in the states said about the virus not I’ll answer that second “why”, first. --- You the old Atomic-4 is a gasoline engine. ------Do Colombians are indoors but watching peaking in the United States until July. I had have to look at the typical boat owner and at the you suppose that is why they named it Atomic? frightening data dance across their TVs. to think about something else; playing music, location of where the boat is kept. The typical After all gas engines, in boats, do like to go---- reading, Facebook, watching a movie, and sailboat owner has not had a lot of sailing KA—BOOOOM! cooking a meal. experience; may even be new to it. So wisdom Then they stopped making them about twenty are they trying to teach him anyway?” I asked, dictates that we get these people out there away years ago. So now when the old A-4 starts to inundating her with questions. Hope…and Kindness from anything they can crunch before they hoist give troubles the first instinct is to replace it “I don’t know. Sometimes he will not work The call from Colombia was sobering…and sails. Insurance companies love engines in with a diesel. Then they find out that; #1, --- with me. He says ‘no, I don’t want to.’”, she sad. I thought about what I have here, what sailboats. you cannot find used, small diesels, #2 --- a new added. we have here, and what is happening there in diesel costs as much or more that the value of Bogota. I thought about how we must continue However I think the most important reason Continuing, I asked, “Are you going to let is the home port of that sailboat. Take, for the boat. to protect ourselves and how important that is. the 4-year-old beat the 52-year-old?” I asked, Then I thought about all of the people trying instance, a home here on Padre Island is at least But the strange thing about Atomic-4’s is that laughing. to help end this virus and make things better; four miles down a narrow channel from the they are good engines. They are lighter, quieter scientists, medical staffs, food growers and open water that cruising type sailboats need. and smoother running than any diesel. And with She broke into laughter. “Yes, it is very factories, truckers, grocery staffs working And some of these channels are really narrow. some new tweaks and twists can be almost as difficult. It is complicated”, she concluded. overtime, volunteers, teachers, the military, and ‘Bout as wide as the boat is long. Now in theory reliable as a diesel. ----- The bad things; #1 “Keep on making it fun for him. Take lots of more. you could sail even those channels, ------if --- major parts are hard to find, #2 --- KA---- breaks. Don’t make him hate it. He will come you waited long enough for the right wind and BOOOOM! if you don’t follow good gas engine around. He is only 4 [5 in April]. It’s not the end I thought about what is happening in Colombia. current conditions. ----. Go for a bay, day-sail safety procedures. But both of those are over- of the world”, I concluded, not realizing what I There is more fear there. More uncertainty. The in early summer; ----- get back home late fall. come-able and you will be seeing the never-say- had just said. uncertainty Maria felt as she made the call. Her die Atomic-4 for many years to come. underlying fears were that they would have So the real reason, for engines in sailboats, is “Ok my love, I will, but it is hard because that banks love engines in sailboats. They want So that is why you can find me all scrunched up riots, that they would die, and that we would sometimes Juan will not obey”, she again never see each other again. I reflected about you back there at the dock, ready to be at work, in an Aunt Nell sized engine playing A-4 doctor, clarified. all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, just eager to one more time. our conversation and hoped that I was able to make the money to pay for the durn thing. “No problem, just try your best and have fun. give her reassurance. I reminded her to remain Boy! --- I’m having fun now! He will learn. He has many years to learn”, I optimistic, protect herself and her family, and be summarized. as prepared as she could be with food, personal protection equipment (PPE), money, a full gas “Yes, I know my love. But I am tired with tank, and protection when she walks to a nearby working with him. It is very difficult”, she Game Warden Field Notes small food market. admitted. The following items are compiled from recent Native American artifacts. The San Marcos It was the end of the conversation and she said “Be safe. Have enough food for your family Texas Parks and Wildlife law enforcement Police Department took the couple to the Hays with watering eye, “I wish I was there with you and make sure you have enough money”, I reports. County Jail. While en route to jail, the man said on your island.” reminded her. he believed he had the coronavirus. He leaned “Me too. But we can travel on the phone during This is Hawkward forward against the partition and aggressively “Yes, but the banks are closed”, she stated. the day and see each other. Stay positive and coughed toward the officers. Both subjects were A Hardin County game warden was at the “For how long?” I asked. enjoy online school with Juan. Make it fun. Your charged with criminal trespass and Antiquities Beaumont District Office when he received a English is getting much better”, I concluded Code violations. The husband was also charged “We do not know”, she answered, sounding call from the manager of the local Office Depot before we said goodbye. Odd I thought. We with possession of a controlled substance, somewhat defeated again. store. The manager said they had a small hawk travel by phone and by TV. flying around inside the store and couldn’t get tampering with evidence and harassment of a “And Western Union?” I asked. it to leave, even though they had the front and public servant. Cases pending. I reflected about Colombia and when I might back roll-up doors open. The warden recruited “Closed also. All the stores are closed. All the be able to travel there. It is not looking good. a licensed falconer who was experienced in Fool Me Once banks. I do not know what will happen to our Then I reviewed today’s virus numbers on my handling and trapping birds of prey to help A Hays County game warden was contacted economy”, she said. cell phone, the numbers of confirmed cases and him catch the hawk. After the falconer arrived by a Hays County sheriff’s detective about What Might Happen If… deaths by country. We are climbing the curve. on scene with a hawk trap and some live bait, trespassers digging for Native American artifacts The numbers for us look grim. We need to they soon discovered that although the bird on a private property in Buda. The landowner I silently reflected for a moment as she talked protect ourselves and others, I concluded. How resembled a hawk, it was in fact a large nightjar installed several game cameras hidden in trees about other stores that were closed. She listed many will die here I wondered. One hundred or “nighthawk,” which feeds on insects, to monitor the dig sites and caught a man, on the stores as my mind wandered. I wondered thousand or three million? How many will die rendering the trap idea useless. Undeterred, the two separate occasions, digging for artifacts what might happen if the virus destroys Bogota there. How fruitless political arguments are warden and his falconer friend resorted to the during March and April 2019. The images and wipes out its people. What might happen if now. It is WE and WE must band together. the economy fails within a few weeks? Riots? old game warden standby — a ladder and a net. were of high quality and showed the man’s My stars - how history changes in the blink of I wondered if we are really that close to an After what resembled a scene from America’s face and unique tattoos on his arms. In March an eye. How tenuous life is, and equally how extinction. My mind was racing and filled with Funniest Home Videos, they were able to finally 2020, the warden assisted a special agent with precious it is. corral the bird in a back hallway and catch it in the Bureau of Land Management with a federal outcomes I did not want to think about, much the dip net. It was released outside, where it case involving the removal and sale of Native less share with Maria at that time. I am going to make some soup now and give myself some reassurance and continue to spread flew off unharmed. The manager of the Office American corpses/bones and sacred burial I thought that it might be much worse there in hope. Hope. Can’t lose hope. We need hope, Depot store was very grateful that the bird was beads from an archeological burial site. The Colombia than here in the United States, but kindness, and cooperation. That’s what we need removed and would not be setting off the alarm warden shared game camera images of the who knows. There is new information every now, regardless of where we live. I hope to see system after closing. Buda property trespasser with the agent, and day. We must follow rules and cling to hope the agent recognized the man as an associate of my fiancée Maria someday soon. Bad Idea, This is while showing kindness I said to myself still the suspect he was actively investigating. The lost in thought. It seemed a wasted time to go We all have our stories. A Hays County game warden received an agent provided the name, and the trespasser was down the rabbit hole of negative thought, death, The Times They Are A Changing. image from a cellphone game camera showing identified. The warden and the agent interviewed and worst-case scenarios now. Maria was too a man and woman trespassing and digging an the trespasser and confirmed his identity through fragile. archeological Native American burial site. The his unique tattoos. The trespasser handed over warden went to the property and found the couple 18 Native American artifacts that were taken in a large hole previously dug by trespassers. from the Buda property. Arrest warrants were Before the warden could say anything, the man obtained for Antiquities Code violations and stood up immediately and said he wasn’t digging criminal trespass. The subject turned himself in. for arrowheads and hates diggers. The couple Cases pending. were husband and wife out on a date. They were The Scope of the Problem both detained in handcuffs and separated at the 24 Hour front and back of the warden’s vehicle. The man A Freestone admitted that he had a glass pipe in his pocket County game Emergency Service that he uses to smoke CBD oils. After a quick warden was examination, the Baby Yoda glass pipe revealed contacted by a small, clear and white crystals that looked like landowner who crystal meth. 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Upon further examination of the shooting at a hog.” The warden contacted the hole where the couple was found, the warden man, who admitted to shooting the doe, saying book online at www.servicemaster-tx.com found a small hand saw and freshly disturbed his “scope was off.” Charges include hunting dirt. The woman’s purse contained several gray a white-tailed deer in closed season, failing to rubber gardening gloves, each containing four take hunter education and hunting without a license. Send letters and photos to [email protected] A8 Island Moon April 16, 2020 SPORTS Sports Talk Special to The Island Moon Texas High School Sports & College Folk Hero Football Playoffs By Dotson Lewis By Andy Purvis only World Series perfect Dotson’s Note: I believe Only halfway through the playoff’s 12-year Special to the Island Moon game during Game Five of that the following two contract, there is already a growing sentiment the 1956 World Series; imperfect people can reports contain important among athletic directors that the playoff Robert Frost once wrote, “In three words I can still have perfect moments. information for you Moon Monkeys to consider should expand directly from 4 to 16 teams. sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It and to prepare you to let me know what needs “To paraphrase the old TV show, ‘Eight Isn’t goes on.” All he wanted to do was play football 63 yards and immortality to be done in these two cases. Thanks to Bill Enough,’” a Power Five AD said. “There needs and knock you down. He had no regard for his Morgan (former SWC SID) Nick Talbot, Brett to be more postseason opportunities meaningful body. The man was a human volcano, always On November 8, 1970, wearing #19, the force McMurphy & a number of major college to the players and meaningful for the fans. Bowl ready to erupt. One hit by this fellow and you was with Tom Dempsey, for the Athletic Directors* for the facts contained in games no longer fit that consistently.” were cross-eyed for about three days. When Saints. Dempsey had spent the this report and to Bill Morgan for the photos. this guy hit you, your entire family felt it. night before out on the town, eating, drinking Currently, the four-team and raising hell in the City of New Orleans. Needed-A Rational Plan to Save Texas Playoff provides the least access for teams to But, he could have never guessed how his High School Sports after Coronavirus the playoff of all the major professional sports Sunday would turn out. With only two seconds as well as the NCAA’s Football Championship Shutdown left on the game clock in and Subdivision (FCS) level and Division I for behind by one point, the You might want a way to change all of this. college basketball. In the four-team College lined up to attempt a 63-yard against Some way to bring sports back — at least at Football Playoff format, only 3% of the 130 the . The stadium was as quiet the high school level. Some way to prevent all FBS teams make the playoff, that compares to as a house without children. At the snap, those seniors from having a lost season after 19% of the FCS teams and 19.4% of Division holder received the football from the coronavirus pandemic caused the UIL and I men’s basketball schools in the NCAA long snapper, , and placed the TAPPS to suspend high school spring sports in Tournament. ball on the Saints’ 37-yard line. Before 1974, mid-March. The difference in playoff access between the Tom Dempsey the goal posts in the NFL were placed at the College Football Playoff and the four major goal line instead of the end line. The most professional leagues is even more staggering powerful emotion in life is hope, but the thing There is no doubt that he was a loose cannon with those pro sports leagues qualifying that made Tom Dempsey a standout straight- and was used to hard living. One thing for sure, between 33 and 53% of its teams for the on placekicker was his confidence. Wearing a he was physically fearless. Known as a cheap- playoffs. “The more playoff spots there are (in modified shoe with a flattened and enlarged toe shot artist, he had a reputation for very rarely college football), the more it will encourage surface, Dempsey took two steps and kicked the missing a chance to get in a few extra licks. He better scheduling because then a regular season ball through the uprights for a 19-17 win. With loved having an impact on others, just not the loss or two doesn’t end a team’s championship that kick, Dempsey broke ’s way you think. You see, kickers are players too. aspirations,” a Power Five AD said. record for the longest field goal ever made in an Yes, he was one of those guys, a placekicker NFL game, by seven yards. Unfortunately, the In the College Football Playoff’s first six that beat you with his legs. The man had 255 New Orleans Saints finished their season with a years, no team with two losses has ever pounds of dynamite in his right leg and it dismal 2-11-1 win-loss record. Above, Dr. Jamey Harrison UIL Deputy qualified. Perhaps realizing the inevitable seemed like he was always in range regardless The American Dream can only be defined by Director explains actions to suspend the rest playoff expansion, several of college football’s of where the team was on the field. But, he you. All we have in this country is opportunity, of the tourney after the class 3A state semifinal elite programs have recently improved their loved talking more about the hits he made on awesome potential, and freedom of choice. boys basketball game between Cole and future non-conference schedules. Some of opposing players than the kicks. Once after Live up to your potential, your abilities and Peaster at the on Feb. 12, 2020. the upcoming home-and-home series include making a big hit on the kickoff team, he was Alabama-Texas, Ohio State-Notre Dame, so disoriented that he ran to the wrong sideline your dreams as you see them. You can talk Oklahoma-Georgia, Wisconsin-Alabama, and sat down on their bench. The equipment about numbers all you want, but there’s only You reason that maybe the UIL could follow Georgia-Florida State, Washington-Ohio State, manager had to escort him back to his side. one number that counts in sports and that’s the NCAA’s lead and grant each senior an extra Texas-Georgia, Oklahoma-Alabama, Texas- being first. Tom Dempsey, a folk hero, owned It was easy to see that this guy was different. year of eligibility. Surely, almost everyone who Ohio State and Clemson-Georgia. the record for the longest field goal ever made had a chance to live through one more year of Standing 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 255 in an NFL game for 43 years. high school would jump at the opportunity. A Group of Five AD favors making the jump pounds, he was a big eater and drinker. When he Right? Or perhaps they could take the lead from four to 16 teams because of the better went to a restaurant, he didn’t look at the menu, Next Week Part II: Everybody knew Dempsey of the MLB and look at constructing a sort of access to Group of Five programs. “It would he ordered it. And, some of his teammates like to party. village for all their activities. allow for greater television exposure, greater joked that he may have used vodka as cologne. Andy Purvis is a local author and radio revenue and more access,” the AD said. He was also born with no toes on his right foot The MLB plan is for all 30 teams to play personality. Please visit www.purvisbooks. and was missing the four fingers on his right games with no fans at stadiums in the Phoenix While only 3% of FBS teams make the College com for all the latest info on his books or to hand. He only had a thumb on his right hand, area, including the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Football Playoff, 65% of FBS teams qualify for listen to the new radio podcast. Andy’s books yet, he never considered himself handicapped. Chase Field, 10 spring training facilities and bowl games. While the athletic directors value are available online and can be found in the perhaps other nearby fields. Players, coaching the “bowl experience,” some admit the bowls Sports provide feel-good moments. They can local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Andy can be staffs and other essential personnel would be resemble “exhibition-type games” as a number heal us and help us move forward, even if it’s contacted at [email protected]. Also sequestered at local hotels, where they would only for a moment. So, when is the last time listen to sports talk radio on Dennis & Andy’s live in relative isolation and travel only to and you did something for the first time? It has Q & A Session from 6-8 PM on Sportsradiocc. from the stadium. been said that success is the art of being where com 1230 AM, 95.1 and 96.1 FM. The home of lightning is going to strike. Like Brooklyn the Houston Astros. Perhaps for the UIL, the Alamodome would Dodger’s pitcher, Don Larsen, who threw the be a great central location to enact their own isolation plan. They could even hold the 3,200- and 1,600-meter races of the state track meet down the Riverwalk. And if that didn’t work out, perhaps they could construct a “Bio-Dome.” If that is not isolated enough, perhaps they can commandeer South Padre Island in order to hold future UIL events without threat from the Bill Hancock coronavirus outbreaks. Sadly, there might be no salvaging this season of high-profile NFL Draft prospects have for high school athletes. And while that isn’t skipped bowl games because it isn’t a playoff fair for the thousands of seniors who would game and they want to avoid injuries. have competed, there is no easy way around it. “In a 16-team playoff everyone would feel like California, the country’s most populous state, they have a chance,” a Group of Five AD said. decided the pandemic was too problematic for “I also do not buy many of the reasons for not high school athletics to overcome this spring. It supporting it. I don’t think it takes away from canceled everything. Even Alaska, the country’s the regular season as it is still very difficult to third-least populated and certainly most remote finish in the top 16.” state, decided the same. Oklahoma halted spring competitions on March 25. Colorado followed “I don’t believe it is too difficult logistically — soon after. Texas, though, is still trying to hold as every other level of sport (high school, FCS, out hope. It’s not fair that all these seasons must NFL, etc.) has figured out legitimate playoffs. I end prematurely. But, it’s also not fair to give love bowl games and college football tradition false hope to every student-athlete in the state. and (a 16-team playoff) would hurt bowl games, but the value of a legitimate playoff is worth it.” There are no signs of the outbreak letting up by May 4, the UIL’s current goal of restarting play Some athletic directors recommended that in around the state. There isn’t any guarantee that a 16-team playoff, the eight teams that lost in “normal” life — whatever that is — will resume the first round of the tournament could then by June 4, or even July 4. advance to play in one of the bowl games, so the student-athletes would still get the “bowl The UIL didn’t provide a new timeline or experience.” calendar for participants in spring sports to finish their season, but deputy director Jamey Also, several athletic directors said by Harrison said there are plans in place that would expanding the playoff, the 12-game regular allow it to happen, if possible. He did not say season likely would need to be reduced. “Rather what those plans are. Probably because he than add games to an already long season, I knows the most likely outcome is canceling the would play an 11-game schedule for an eight- season. The UIL just doesn’t want to say it, yet. team playoff and a 10-game schedule for a 16- team playoff,” a Power Five AD said. “The The Case for a 16-Team College Football games eliminated would be non-conference Playoff Grows Stronger and consist mostly of games that are non- Photos by Debbie Noble During the early days of the College Football competitive, which most people don’t want to Playoff, executive director Bill Hancock was watch and most athletes don’t want to play in.” always fearful of what he called “bracket creep.” *All wished to remain anonymous. “No (playoff) bracket ever stayed at the size it Dotson’s Other Note: It’s about time they went was when the event was created,” Hancock said. to 16. I would wager that Bill Hancock has the When the current College Football Playoff recommendations that Bill Morgan and I sent contract ends after the 2025-26 season, 88% of to the NCAA and the CCA Commissioners back the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) athletic in the 80s. 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Being the scientist that forever rolling in the tides this also been initiated. Another update simply stated I am, I stopped feeding sunflowers and oranges April, despite what man does that the TAMUCC proposal for monitoring to see what would happen. Lo and behold, I here on land. Fishing has been is “under review.” Last time the City took 8 had a couple of hooded warblers show up over excellent from the Land Cut to months to “review” the contract, in which time the weekend due to the lack of unruly locals. the ship Channel in Port A. Live the researchers lost shrimp has been available at all value monitoring the marinas but the fishing has information. In been so good many beginners addition, the City is are hitting limits with soft supposedly working playing and topwaters. On those with the TGLO days when we have a steady regarding moving wind, make drifts over the flats sand laterally from in 2-4ft of water where you find the base of the scattered sand pockets. When jetties to in front of the winds die stay in deep water the seawall to help working the drop offs of the with the erosion. ICW channel. This week I’m You loyal readers keeping it short but I’m on the know that I’ve been water and ready to take you writing about that out and show you when where for at least five and how to catch fish in your years, and the City back yard. I hope that everyone is finally getting here on our island stays safe around to trying and smart about this uncertain to get it permitted time. Thank you I love you Golden Fronted woodpecker and cardinal. and implemented. Mr Gary with a nice redfish we picked up along the deep all. Turn off the TV, put down Also, there was “no The squirrels were mad, and they would loiter grassy edges along the King Ranch Shoreline. Plastics the phone and let’s go fishing! update” on the $11 million dollars from FEMA around the feeder looking for some leftover under a popping cork. Stay wet for Packery Channel repairs. tidbits. One had the audacity to come up on “The Hell with this all, Let’s go Fishing !!” It’s my front porch and sniff around one day. Fast One of the more interesting updates from the the war cry from local residents here on North forward… City was that they issued a notice-to-proceed Padre and Port Aransas. How can we get to a By about this past Tuesday, Roadkill Willie to Haas Anderson regarding the PR 22 bridge point where the local government can say that was getting some decent birds at his place over project. While the stated purpose of the we are not allowed to fish from the beach, yet the in the Del Mar area. I reluctantly crew of house framers can go to work down the said that I would feed again, and street from my house uninterrupted? If being in filled the feeder with sunflower lockdown is so important let’s do the best thing seeds, put an orange up there, and here and block off the TWO entrances to our a new suet cake in the cage that Island and only let the residents and essential hangs from the feeder and went people come out here? Because it’s all a bunch of back inside. Sure enough, after Bull Squat. The Hell with this! Let’s go fishing. about a half hour I heard a crash outside. Because my feeder is Up to Easter weekend I have been running a piece of PVC in a 5-gallon charters, but being selective and careful of bucket of sand for a base, it is whom I was taking. The BIG NEWS last week not the most solid thing in my was that the city was going to shut down the yard. Sure enough, the squirrels boat ramps, but they never did. Out of town and formed a quick union, and all got local fishermen were out and about as if nothing on top of the feeder somehow was different. Guides from outlying areas were and knocked it over. It took here taking clients out in our waters for money, the weight of all the squirrels but the Port Aransas local who were out of work in the neighborhood, but they and going stir crazy couldn’t walk down to got it done. The ringleader is a the water and cast a pole? Seems like the only mottled squirrel, and he took off thing the Corpus Police were doing here last with half an orange and scampered Indigo buntings. weekend, was keeping those beach barricades up a tree while I put it all back protected. There have been lots of 2-4lb trout for together and picked it back up. I kid you not, notice was for them to recoup costs for “value anglers drift fishing the flats with both live I went out this morning, and that same squirrel engineering”, it represents the first step towards shrimp and plastics. was carrying around that half orange today like actual construction. I’ve also heard a rumor that a dog carries a toy. I was so mad I didn’t even the Island Walk canal, the developer’s portion of think to get a picture. Dang squirrels. the project, may get cut loose soon. We’re all looking forward to that project moving forward. I picked up a 500mm lens the other day, and I have been messing around with it. It’s a manual I typically don’t do this, as this is in Ronnie’s lens that my camera doesn’t even recognize, kitchen, but this past week there was a music Cleaning Service so I’m learning again how to manually set the series honoring the late John Prine, called TuffInsured & Bonded Stuff aperture and ISO and all that noise. Oh yeah, “Prine time” on the social media. It was a plus manually focus all at the same time. Ha! stream of singers and songwriters covering Sanitize your home! It’s challenging, but I’m starting to put two and John’s music through the years, and it was two together. Literally as I was writing this put on by the Sequestered Songwriters group. article, I heard the indigo buntings come into the Check it out: and you’re welcome in advance yard, and popped out and grabbed a few frames if you didn’t know about it. Drop me a line at of them and a golden fronted woodpecker and [email protected] and I’ll see you next cardinal on my feeder playing nice for once. week On the Couch. While not National Geographic worthy, you can Fully Guided • All Tackle Provided at least tell what the birds are. Ha! (361)442-8145 Call Rhonda 361-222-8995

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1 of 1 4/14/2020, 1:39 PM April 16, 2020 Island Moon A 13 STATE Full Transparency and Disclosure Coronavirus (COVID-19) PIPOA News by Marvin Jones, President By Todd Hunter, District 32 • Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs: https://www.tdhca. As always, let me have The City paid 66% -$361,238.22 and the In this week’s article I would like to state.tx.us/covid19.htm your thoughts. You can PIPOA paid 33% - $178,552.56. The contract continue to provide useful links concerning the • Texas Department of Insurance: reach me at marvin@ required the PIPOA to pay all the costs coronavirus (COVID-19). To be prepared, our https://www.tdi.texas.gov/news/2020/ pipoa.net upfront, and the City would subsequently office has been in constant contact with local, state, and federal officials. coronavirus-updates.html The PIPOA officereimburse the PIPOA the City’s share of the remains closed to the cost. Therefore, the City has now sent the I would like to remind the Coastal Bend we • Texas Department of Motor Vehicles: public due to concerns about COVID-19 PIPOA a check for $361,238.22. The City must work together to combat the virus. I will https://www.txdmv.gov/covid-19 and the need for social distancing. You can is obligated to pay the PIPOA $14,700 per continue to encourage everyone to take these • Texas Department of Public Safety: contact the PIPOA via phone at 361-949- year to our park maintenance expenses. The precautionary steps to prevent the spread of the https://www.dps.texas.gov/COVIDtravel/ 7025 or email to Jim Smock at jim@pipoa. main expenses of the park will run between virus. These actions include: net. $50,000-$60,000 per year. • Texas Department of State Health • Wash your hands often with soap and Services: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/ The annual Common Area Maintenance If the Government lifts the ban on group water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and coronavirus/ (CAM) fees were due March 31, 2020. If you meetings for May, there will probably be a water are not available, use alcohol-based have not paid these fees, please do so as soon Board meeting the 2nd week of May. The hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol. • Texas Education Agency: https://tea. PIPOA Board of Directors needs to fill a texas.gov/texas-schools/safe-and- as possible. You have until April 30, 2020, to • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and pay without penalty. vacant Board seat. healthy-schools/coronavirus-covid-19- mouth with unwashed hands. support-and-guidance Survey- The PIPOA will be sending to The COVID-19 and the need for precautions have disrupted American lives. Our little • Avoid close contact with people who are • Texas Health and Human Services: the members a survey asking a variety of sick questions regarding the needs and wishes of slice of paradise on the Island is no exception. https://hhs.texas.gov/ the members. The survey should be going Please take every precaution recommended • Stay home when you are sick. • Texas Public Utility Commission: by health experts to prevent the spread of out in the next two weeks. Please give the • Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue http://www.puc.texas.gov/images/facts/ survey your attention and return it as soon as COVID-19. Social distancing, according to PUCTX-COVID19-FAQ-FAQ.pdf possible. government health departments, is the key to • Clean and disinfect frequently touched beating back this virus. Please stay in your objects and surfaces using regular • Texas Railroad Commission: https:// Billish Park- Good news. As per the contract homes if possible and when out of the house, household cleaning spray or wipe www.rrc.state.tx.us/covid19/ with the City of Corpus Christi, the total cost please maintain a minimum of 6 feet. Please As more information becomes available, I will • Texas Restaurant Association: https:// of the park improvements was $539,790.78. be safe and healthy. God Bless one and all. provide additional updates. The state agencies www.txrestaurant.org/news/coronavirus- are collaborating with each other and work guidance-resources closely with local officials to respond to current • Texas Veterans Commission: https:// Sales Tax Holiday for outbreaks. In the meantime, it is important to www.tvc.texas.gov/ follow the precautionary steps listed above, and comply with local health officials to help • Texas Workforce Commission Resources Emergency Supplies, April 25-27 contain the spread of the virus. I will include for Employers: https://twc.texas.gov/ news/covid-19-resources-employers As the nation continues to shelter in place the delivery charge is also taxable. Consider an updated list of useful links to follow current because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas these charges when determining whether an developments and for assistance during the • Texas Workforce Commission Resources Comptroller Glenn Hegar is urging Texans to emergency preparation supply can be purchased coronavirus. for Job Seekers: https://twc.texas.gov/ tax free during the holiday. shop online or practice strict social distancing • Center for Disease Control: https://www. news/covid-19-resources-job-seekers measures for in-store purchases during the sales For example, if you purchase a rescue ladder cdc.gov/coronavirus/ • Texas.gov tax holiday for emergency preparation supplies. for $299 with a $10 delivery charge, the total • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid: • The Office of Public Insurance Council: The primary intent of the law that established sales price is $309. Because the total sales price https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality- https://www.opic.texas.gov/news/ this holiday, which begins at 12:01 a.m. on of the ladder is more than $300, tax is due on safety-oversight-general-information/ coronavirus/ Saturday, April 25, and ends at midnight on the $309 sales price. coronavirus Monday, April 27, is to help Texans prepare • The Texas Education Agency Meal Unfortunately, the list of tax-free items is for events like hurricanes and turbulent spring • Federal Emergency Management Agency: Finder: https://schoolmealfinder.hoonuit. established by law and does not include items storms. https://www.fema.gov/ com/ such as masks or personal protection equipment. There’s no limit on the number of qualifying • For live national briefings from the • The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: Other purchases that do not qualify include: items that can be purchased. These include: Coronavirus Task Force: https://www. https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/ • household batteries, fuel containers and • batteries for automobiles, boats and other whitehouse.gov/live/ releases/?req=20200319a motorized vehicles; flashlights priced at less than $75; • Internal Revenue Services: https://www. • To find community resources: https:// • hurricane shutters and emergency ladders • camping stoves and camping supplies; irs.gov/coronavirus www.211texas.org/ or call 2-1-1 priced at less than $300; and • chainsaws; • Small Business Association: https://www. • TWC Child Care Resources: https://www. • portable generators priced at less than • plywood; sba.gov/page/coronavirus-covid-19- twc.texas.gov/news/covid-19-resources- $3,000. small-business-guidance-loan-resources child-care • extension ladders and stepladders; and For purchases made online, note that delivery, • To follow the Coronavirus Task Force: • TWC Unemployment Benefits: https:// • tents. shipping, handling and transportation charges https://www.coronavirus.gov/ www.twc.texas.gov/jobseekers/ are part of the sales price. If the emergency A list of emergency preparation supplies that • To follow the Federal Government’s unemployment-benefits-services preparation supply being purchased is taxable, may be purchased tax free can be found on the Response: https://www.usa.gov/ • United Way: https://www.uwayhelps.org/ Comptroller’s website. coronavirus COVID19 • U.S. Department of Agriculture: https:// • Aransas Pass ISD: http://www.apisd.org/ www.usda.gov/coronavirus U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Awards • Corpus Christi ISD: https://www.ccisd. • U.S. Department of Education: https:// us/Departments/Communications www.ed.gov/coronavirus Dredging Contract for Corpus Christi Ship • Corpus Christi Regional Transportation • U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Authority: https://www.ccrta.org/ https://www.dhs.gov/publication/notices- covid19/ Channel Improvement Project arrival-restrictions-coronavirus • Flour Bluff ISD: http://flourbluffschools. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) past 30 years. In February, the Administration • U.S. Department of Labor: https://www. net/coronavirus-covid-19-updates/ has awarded a $97.9 million construction released its proposed fiscal year 2021 osha.gov/SLTC/covid-19/ contract on Wednesday to Callan Marine, Ltd., President’s Budget, which included over $100 • London ISD: https://www.londonisd.net/ • U.S. Department of State: https:// to complete the second phase of the four phase million in the USACE Civil Works Division • Port Aransas ISD: https://www.paisd.net/ Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement for Coastal Navigation Construction for the travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/ Project. The project increases the channel depth project. To date the Corpus Christi Ship Channel traveladvisories/ea/covid-19-information. • The City of Aransas Pass: https:// from -47 feet Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) Improvement Project has already received html aransaspasstx.gov/383/COVID-19 to -54 feet and widens the channel to 530 feet nearly $150 million in federal appropriations, • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: • The City of Corpus Christi: https://www. with an additional 400 feet of barge shelves. and the Port of Corpus Christi has accelerated https://www.publichealth.va.gov/n- cctexas.com/coronavirus an additional $150 million of its own cost share This second contract award follows the coronavirus/index.asp portion capital to progress the project. • The City of Port Aransas: https:// completion of Contract 1, which Great Lakes • U.S. Election Assistance Commission: cityofportaransas.org/coronavirus/ Dredge & Dock Company, LLC. (GLDD) “We are extremely appreciative of the Army https://www.eac.gov/election-officials/ • The Corpus Christi Economic completed on time in March 2020, deepening Corps of Engineers for acknowledging the coronavirus-covid-19-resources and widening the CCSC from the Gulf of strategic national importance of executing the Development Corporation: Mexico to Harbor Island. Contract 2 will deepen Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: https://www.ccredc.com/index. and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel from Project,” said Sean Strawbridge, Port of https://www.epa.gov/pesticide- php?src=gendocs&ref=ccredc.com/ Harbor Island to 2.7 miles past the LA Quinta Corpus Christi Chief Executive Officer. “As registration/list-n-disinfectants-use- coronahelp&link=ccredc.com/coronahelp Junction and includes Ingleside where three the largest export gateway for U.S. produced against-sars-cov-2 Workforce Solutions of the Coastal Bend: large crude export marine terminal operators – energy destined for global demand markets, • U.S. Food and Drug Administration: https://www.workforcesolutionscb.org/ Buckeye Partners, Moda Midstream, and Flint a deeper and wider ship channel will solidify https://www.fda.gov/emergency- covid19resources/ Hills Resources – will directly benefit. the competitiveness of American energy on the preparedness-and-response/mcm-issues/ world stage.” If you have questions regarding any of the “This contract is vital for us to continue the coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19 information mentioned in this week’s article, deepening and widening of the existing Corpus The Texas-based Callan Marine, Ltd., has • World Health Organization: https://www. please do not hesitate to call my Capitol or Christi Ship Channel. The work will improve worked extensively on channel-deepening who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel- District Office. Please always feel free to energy product transportation throughout at projects, beach re-nourishment projects and coronavirus-2019 contact my office if you have any questions the Port of Corpus Christi by allowing larger marsh creation projects. The newest and largest or issues regarding a Texas state agency, or if • Learning Resources for Texas Parents: vessels more efficient access, which will boost dredger in the Callen Marine fleet, the General you would like to contact my office regarding http://parents.nea.org/keeping-kids- the economic competitive advantage and energy MacArthur, is expected to be mobilized from constituent services. My offices are available curious/ security of the United States for decades to Galveston to Corpus Christi in the next few at any time to assist with questions, concerns come,” said Colonel Timothy Vail, USACE weeks. • Office of the Texas Governor: https://gov. or comments (Capitol Office, 512-463-0672; Galveston District Commander. Estimated completion for this phase of the texas.gov/coronavirus District Office, 361-949-4603). The Port of Corpus Christi has advocated for Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement • TDEM Essential Services: https://tdem. the advancement of this landmark project for the Project is early 2022, with improvements to texas.gov/essentialservices/ - State Representative Todd Hunter, District 32 Ingleside by fourth quarter of 2021. • Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission: https://www.tabc.state.tx.us/coronavirus/ Rep. Hunter represents Nueces County (Part). index.asp City Revises Lease With He can be contacted at todd.hunter@house. • Texas Attorney General: https://www. texas.gov or at 512-463-0672. texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ Padre Island Yacht Club ag-paxton-warns-price-gouging-texans- prepare-prevent-spread-coronavirus or the City of Corpus Christi and the Padre Island call the Consumer Protection Division: Yacht Club was originally authorized in 1995 1-800-621-0508 and includes a total leased area of 2.69 acres adjacent to the Whitecap Wastewater Treatment • Texas Board of Nursing: https://www. Plant. The Padre Island Yacht Club was built by bon.texas.gov/COVID-19.asp members and opened in 1996. The current lease • Texas Comptroller: https://comptroller. expires July 11, 2025. texas.gov/about/emergency/ The Padre Island Yacht Club approached the • Texas COVID-19 Shelter in Place Map: City to ask for a change in the method used for https://txdps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/ lease payment calculation. The current method opsdashboard/index.html#/7f8f7d13bcc9 is $2300 annually or 10% of monthly gross 42d98c1ceb93b4697c36 income from membership fees and slip rentals. Over the last seven years, lease payments • Texas Department of Agriculture: https:// The Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday have increased over 140%, averaging $15,800 www.texasagriculture.gov/NewsEvents/ voted on the first reading to amend the city lease annually. COVID19CoronavirusResponsePage. with the Padre Island Yacht Club. aspx The proposed lease payment will change to The change alters the rent payments from the greater of $2,500 or 5% of quarterly gross • Texas Department of Emergency the greater of 10% of gross income or $2300 income from membership fees and slip rentals. Management: https://tdem.texas.gov/ annually to greater of 5% gross income or $2500 Payments will be made quarterly instead of covid-19/ quarterly and revise the insurance exhibit. monthly and be effective the 1st quarter of • Texas Department of Family and According to information provided to the 2020. Protective Services: https://www.dfps. council on Tuesday, the current lease between state.tx.us/About_DFPS/Coronavirus/ default.asp April 16, 2020 Island Moon A 14 A little Island history Nature Notes Poker and Tall Tales at the Right Now We All Need Flour Bluff Fish Market To Be Oystercatchers By Bobbie Kimbrell glutted. There was a poker game at the market By Susan Heath upper mandible. They use that lower mandible Editor’s note: Bobbie Kimbrell has lived in every Saturday and sometimes on the weekdays. to snag fish while they skim the water. Flour Bluff since 1943 and was a commercial These are tough times, folks. I hope this finds fisherman there until his retirement and still Blackie eventually sold the market to Wilbert you and your family well and safe at home. For Black Skimmers are colonial, which means lives there today. Gohlke who was a good trotline fisherman. those who must go out to work an essential job they nest in a colony in very close proximity to Wilbert and his brothers had so many top – thank you! I’ve been reflecting on how the each other. They like being together, just like The fish market in Flour Bluff is located on trotlines out south of Pita Island the area became birds are doing their thing without any notice of us humans. Once their chicks can fly, the adults Shore Drive where Buena Vista runs into Shore known as Gohlke Jungle! Gohlke was also a how the human population is in turmoil. leave them to their devices and they must learn Drive one block from Laguna Shores Road cattle rancher and had oil wells on his land at to survive on their own, but they are almost and about one-quarter of a mile north of where Goliad. He would fish by day and tend to his always found in social groups not related to Yorktown Boulevard runs into Laguna Shores ranch and farm by night. At one time Wilbert’s their first family. I love Black Skimmers but Road. daughter had a sewing business inside the fish right now, don’t be like the Black Skimmer. market. Wilbert eventually turned the market The east end of the fish market abuts the Contrast that with the American Oystercatcher, over to his son Danny who ran it for a while and Laguna Madre and is assessable by boat. The a large black, brown, and white shorebird with bought shrimp for a while then eventually started fish market’s name was Monk’s Place and was an orange bill. American Oystercatchers are not leasing out the market to different people. originally in old Flour Bluff where the NAS-CC colonial. They are territorial. They will not let is now. Monk’s Place was an emporium type of Clyde Fanchier leased the market for a while another oystercatcher, even another pair’s chick, store that sold beer, soda, water, candy and other and put in a retail market selling fish, oysters enter their territory. They are fiercely protective items usually sold in a convenience store. and other seafood. of what they consider their piece of property and There were tables and chairs where you could Clyde gave up the market after a while and are pretty darn antisocial during the breeding sit down and drink a beer or two. There was went back to commercial trotline fishing with season. also an old type piano that Bessie, Monk’s his son David. They had a houseboat anchored Adult American Oystercatcher with chick. It takes 28 days for the eggs to hatch and wife played sometimes when there was a lot out in the Baffin Bay area that they stayed on another 35 days before the young birds can of customers drinking beer. She played the Old while fishing. Clyde was originally a cement fly. Even after the young birds can fly though, Migrant birds are arriving on the coast right Time Rag songs that reminiscent of the 1920s contractor and while at the market he put in a the family stays together as a group for many on time and passing through our area as and early 30s when people danced the flapper cement ramp for trucks to back up to load fish months while the young birds learn to feed style dancing. Monk’s Place had a small building and he also put in cement bulkheads and a normal. The bluebirds at the Gulf Coast Bird outside that was used to ice down fish that they cement parking lot. It increased the price of the Observatory have built a nest and have probably brought to sell to the Lone Star Fish and Oyster property quite a bit. After that Bucky Vannoy laid eggs by now. The Northern Parulas are Market on North Staples Street. Clarence was and his tribe took over the fish market. Bucky singing their hearts out along the bayou. But Bessie’s brother and helped Monk run the couldn’t read or write so he got his sister Eunice, maybe saying the birds are doing their thing business. He weighed the fish and iced them who had finished high school to be his secretary without notice is incorrect. Turkey Vultures and down and worked in the store. Most of the time and bookkeeper and she did a good job. Bucky’s other scavengers have probably noticed a lack he had a beer in one hand and got pretty tipsy by brother, Jackie did the gut and gilling of the of roadkill for feasting because there aren’t as dark thirty. Monk’s house was just north of the fish and most of the filleting. He was a master many vehicles on the roads as usual. Wilson’s building and there was a bunkhouse south of the Plovers have arrived to nest on beaches that are Black Skimmer colony in of filleting fish. After filleted you could read a West Galveston Bay. store that some commercial fishermen lived in, newspaper through the backbone! Jackie like devoid of humans. Least Terns too. They must some of them drawing the old age pension. Clarence, drank a lot of beer and about be in heaven! dark-thirty every evening he would get I’ve also been comparing and contrasting efficiently. So maybe right now, just for a while, the dry heaves nearly every day of the human behavior with bird behavior, especially become one with the oystercatchers and stay year. When Bucky had the market a lot with respect to two species that nest here in safe. Just as the oystercatchers become more of fish fries were held with beer to drink. Texas and are often confused with each other. social when the breeding season is over (usually Bucky had the market for many years They look a lot alike. From a distance both July or August), so will we become more social and throughout his lifetime he had seven appear as dark birds with orange on their bill. when the threat from covid-19 is past. Stay safe, or eight wives who ended up with most Both nest on the ground in shelly substrates on everyone, and we will get through this together of the money Bucky made which caused bay islands and are subject to the same threats while six feet apart. of nest overwash, predation of eggs and chicks some of the fishermen to have a late Sue Heath is the Director of Conservation by gulls and mammals, and human disturbance. payday. Bucky’s last wife created such Research of the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory. But they could not be more different in their a financial problem that Bucky quit the The GCBO is a non-profit organization social behavior. market and Kenny Danley took over. dedicated to saving the birds and their habitats Kenny is the son of Jigs Danley who We humans are most like the Black Skimmer, along the entire Gulf Coast, and beyond into was one of the first original commercial a black and white waterbird, somewhat like a their Central and South America wintering fishermen around Flour Bluff. Kenny tern. They have a unique orange and black bill grounds. and his brothers and dad did a lot of in which the lower mandible is longer than the drywalling at times. When Kenny took over the fish market the termites had just about eaten it up so Kenny replaced most Bucky Vannoy Photo by Mary Craft. of the studs and rafters and repaired the Knowing Debt and Credit roof. Later on Kenny tore down the old On Pay Day they would go to the liquor store outhouse outside and put a toilet indoors. About Obligations during COVID-19 in Flour Bluff and buy cases of whiskey and that time Danny, the owner put the property up usually stay drunk until all of the whiskey was for sale at $500,000 but it never sold. By Emily Gaines | PR Coordinator for BBB serving the Heart of Texas drank up. A lot of the kids hung out at Monk’s Place and some of the fishermen would give Kenny is still operating the fish market and them what money they had left when they went apparently doing well. My hearing got so bad As the COVID-19 crisis moves forward, with of your rights. If you work with your fishing so the kids could buy some soda water I quit going to the fish market to visit and as far businesses closing temporarily and employee lender to make arrangements during and candy. The original building was about 60 as I know they don’t have any poker or boo-ray layoffs, many are wondering how they will COVID-19, get everything in writing. manage their finances. Among these worries are by 30 feet and later on was extended to about games anymore and I doubt that much beer is • Ask for more information. If you have how to handle credit and debt repayments. The 90 or 100 feet long. A cooler was installed to drank there anymore! debts and receive a call from someone you CARES Act offers relief to those financially store bars of ice and to ice down the fish and aren’t sure is a legitimate debt collector, Alvin Barta, about 87 years old and his brother impacted by the pandemic. The new law it was turned into a wholesale fish market with ask questions before providing any of Richard still fish and help supply fish for the requires lenders to report to credit bureaus that the fish being shipped to San Antonio and Austin your personal information. A legitimate fish market. When I was fishing myself, I fished borrowers are current on their debt obligations, by truck. A Mr. Kesterson acquired the building collector will be able to tell you their from dawn to dusk and sometimes at night with so long as the borrower has sought relief from after Monk died. name, company, company’s street address gill nets so I wouldn’t have to get a job and go those obligations due to pandemic-related and phone number, etc. They should also I don’t know if he bought it or just rented it from to work. hardships. have the details of the account in question. whoever still owned it. Kesterson had a crippled The fish market has been in operation for about leg and his health got so bad he let the market While many lenders have already taken steps to Call Equifax, TransUnion and Experian to the last 80 years and with the exception of the assist borrowers – such as offering forbearance, place a fraud alert if a scammer obtains go and Blackie Coulson bought the market for Caller-Times, might be one of the oldest business supposedly $5000 from whoever still owned it. loan extensions and reduced interest rates – your personal information. in Corpus Christi, which, to me, would make it those who need assistance should reach out to • Be wary of paying for credit reports. Blackie was also a professional gambler and a lot like the Alamo – historical. Thousands of their lender to discuss their options. Flexibility AnnualCreditReport.com is the only card sharp and good pool player. He bilked the commercial fisherman have sold fish to the fish on loans, however, does not mean borrowers legitimate website where you can obtain fishermen out of a lot of money by winning market at one time or the other with some of should be less diligent in monitoring their the free credit report you are entitled to every hand that he dealt in poker. He introduced the fishermen not lasting long enough to make credit and finances. Scammers will always take each year. Paid credit monitoring is also Texas High Hold ’em 30 years before it became a name for themselves. Many a tall tale was told advantage of a crisis. popular in Vegas. Blackie bought fish for Lone at the fish market when the weather got so bad available and retrieving multiple reports Star and Oyster Market just like Monk did you couldn’t go fishing. 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The powers that your eardrums pounding, but it’s better than be shut down the bars and restaurants and hotels nothing. Also the gang over at the Facebook all of you ample time to shower me with gifts and blockaded the beach entrances and boat page: Live from the Gregory’s House with Jeff for my 500th column coming out on June 25th. ramps and wrapped this puppy up tighter than and Kelly and their their virtual Facebook page I know Rankin will need time to get my gold two coats of paint. The piers and shorelines were Virtual Happy Hour with your Port Aransas watch inscribed. I may have mentioned that I off limits to all things fishing and lollygagging. Bartenders where the likes of Johnny Bravo could use a new hat. Hint hint. I’m sitting good Me and the mermaid gal took our bikes down to It is now Kemp Ridley nesting season until July 15. & Jenn and Renee & KK put on daily shows on toilet paper right now. Hey, it only took me Caldwell Pier on Easter Day and it was absent mixing drinks and being loveable knuckleheads eleven years of pumping out this dribble week of human form and more than a little bit eerie. is a nice distraction. It’s like hanging out at after week and still managing to find something April 1st also marked the opening of sea turtle Red’s or Shorty’s but you don’t get to hug your fresh to bitch about and keep you entertained. nesting season for the Texas coast so if you see buddies. It’s a lousy job but someone’s got to do it! Be any turtles crossing the beach or near the dunes, safe out there. BE REAL SAFE OUT THERE. do not disturb them, stay at least 20 feet away Small bills please… Keep your heads down, don’t touch nothing and and call1-866-TURTLE5 immediately. I was This seems like as good a time as any to give go wash your hands… right now! fortunate one year ago at this time when my pal ♫♪♫ And, that’s the truth ♫♪♫ Nikki got a call about the first nester of the year on the beach. Here’s what I wrote about it at the time one year ago: So I’m out at Paradise Pond with my pal Nikki on Easter Sunday, looking for photo ops and she got a call that there was a Live Music Kemp’s ridley sea turtle at pole 51 that crawled Mermaid sand sculpture across the beach road while attempting to nest at SandFest 2019. at the foot of the dunes. When we got there we found the ARK (Amos Rescue Keep) crew were already on top of things and were especially Tonight stoked because it was the FIRST documented nester for the season (April 1 through July 15) Selfie @ Shorty’s Thursday, April 16 for this critically endangered species of sea Hayes Carll @ Third Coast Free Beer Band @ turtle. ARK queso grande Alicia Walker and Theater Giggity’s veteran volunteer Lee Harrison were on hand ALL LiVE SHOWS Yosh and Yimmy on Sunday, May 3 securing the area, measuring and tagging the Facebook 8-9:30 animal and digging the 78 freshly laid eggs out Iration, Hirie @ Concrete Street of the nest. Everything was well documented Friday, April 17 Antone & All Stars @ and federal guidelines were closely followed. Chanklas @ Giggity’s POSTPONED Giggity’s They also went to great measures to assure that Mike O’Neill @ Shorty’s SandFest @ Port A Beach the animal was not harmed and the eggs were Monday, May 4 Viral @ Rockit’s safely packed for transport to Padre Island Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Kyle Park @ Brewster NS Division of Sea Turtle Science & Recovery @ Giggity’s Street John Lennon sand sculpture where they would be incubated for about 45 Tuesday, May 5 days. I got to actually witness this turtle laying Saturday, April 18 at SandFest 2013. Paul & Victoria @ her eggs and burying them in the sand. The Todd Dorn & the Sea TEMPORARILY Giggity’s whole process was amazing and watching the Drifters @ Giggity’s The streets of Port A were virtually empty this ARK crew was inspiring. Johnny Boy @ Shorty’s Wednesday, May 6 holiday weekend. The virus numbers are up SandFest @ Port A Beach CLOSED Jim Dugan @ Giggity’s to 83 confirmed cases in Nueces County and On the local front… Splendiferous @ Rockit’s 1 death. If we don’t want to end up like New Twista, Bone @ Brewster 132 W. Cotter St. Port A Thursday, May 7 York, Seattle or New Orleans then we better get Street On the Waterfront Free Beer Band @ used to being sequestered and accept it. It was Giggity’s tough not being able to celebrate Easter in our Sunday, April 19 SandFest @ Port A Beach traditional ways. 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Alister (361) 416-1020 Toman Brothers @ to buckle down and put this monster behind us Giggity’s treasureislandporta for good. Giggity’s Ty Dieztz @ Shorty’s Wednesday, April 22 Hank Reeves @ Giggity’s Steve Coons cooks up the BBQ for Sunday, May 10 Shorty’s Anniversary in 2015. Antone & All Stars @ Thursday, April 23 Giggity’s Free Beer Band @ Giggity’s Monday, May 11 Open Jam w/ Ray Summy Friday, April 24 @ Giggity’s Red Giant @ Giggity’s Temporarily Tuesday, May 12 Saturday, April 25 Paul & Victoria @ BELT SANDER RACES Giggity’s @ Gaff Closed Dropkick Murphys, Rancid, Mike Milligan & Texiana Gerry Cinnamon, Jesse Bluez @ Giggity’s OPEN Till 2am • 823 Tarpon St. Port A. 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